Neil Gower wrote:
However, man perl-unicode explains that Perl can't read utf8 encoded text
files.
Not even on systems that have UTF-8 locales? :-(
BTW, if you have a Linux system, you might want to try a test
installation of the latest glibc 2.2 snapshot, which finally has full
UTF-8 locale support, as well as all the ISO C 99 multi-byte functions.
Details:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-05/msg00014.html
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/glibc/
http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/TODO.html
Markus
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